Jeff Kalin
JEFF
KÄLIN is an artist and graphic designer living in Kansas City,
Missouri.
Before completing his bachelors degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, Jeff was hired as a Senior Designer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he enjoyed art directing book covers, interiors and book packaging.
Known for his content-driven, typographically sophisticated covers
and interior designs, Jeff created thoughtful designs with strong
shelf-appeal which not only drove sales of such reprints as Marshall
McCluhan's 'Understanding Media' but also contributed to the highest
standards in the publishing of printed visual communication. Mr.
Kälin was recognized with awards from the American Association of
University Presses, BookBuilders of Boston, The American Institute
of Graphic Arts, The New York Type Director's Club and PRINT
Magazine.
After the MIT Press, Jeff opened his own firm in Boston, KÆLINWERK
Design+Visual Communication, taught graphic design and product
design for two years at Northeastern University as Adjunct Professor
in the College of Arts, Media and Design and was also the
Director/Owner of Gallery5North in the Fort Point Channel Arts
section of Boston's waterfront.
In 2003, Jeff moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During his time
in Europe he worked primarily as an Art Director in various design
firms but also pursued instruction at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie
in the Department of Architecture where he studied Landscape,
Residential Design and Urban Development. Following the Rietveld, he
worked in a team at an architectural design firm, Wingender
Hovenier, in Amsterdam as a conceptual and presentation model
builder.
Now back in the US, Jeff Kälin has reopened KÆLINWERK and is
enjoying being back in the USA.
Samples of Jeff's works:
For over 11,000 years they have secretly ruled the earth through an ancient society known as the Rominus Empire, bringing death and order to an already decadent world. Yet within this kingdom, is an ancient prophecy that foretells of an imminent civil war between clans fated to spark the end of the human race and of the king destined to stop it. There are those clandestine few who believe in the coming of this new ruler and have conspired to find him only in vain, but now after centuries of searching and waiting, it is he who seeks them, not for peace or power, but for revenge.
Mindblindness, 6 x 9 in., 3-color book coverThe MIT Press
A
Theory for Practice, 6.5
x 8.25 in., 4 spot-color bookcover, The MIT Press
Understanding Media, 6 x 9 in., 4-color bookcover, The MIT Press
Proun I, C-Print on dibond aluminum, 24 x 24 x 1 in., $1500 'Suprematist' series: Kansas City, 2011
At
the Waterline, C-Print on dibond
aluminum, 17.25 x 11 x .75 in., $1100 [sold] 'Waterline' Exhibition:
Amsterdam, 2004